The bumps on each brick are arranged to correspond to the numbers and letters in the Braille system, with the printed version of the symbol or letter printed below the bumps.
The World Health Organization estimates that 19 million children around the world are visually impaired and that 1.4 million of those children are blind. In the U.S. alone,, about 6.8% of children younger than 18 years have a diagnosed eye or vision condition and nearly 3 percent of those are blind or visually impaired.
Yet only 10 percent of blind children learn to read Braille compared to more than 50 percent in the 1950s, according to a"For the blind community, Braille is not just literacy, it’s our entry to independence and inclusion into this world, and to have LEGO Braille Bricks made available for the wider public is a massive step forward to ensuring more children will want to learn braille in the first place," Martine Abel-Williamson, the president of the World Blind Union, said in a press...
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